After taking the power tiller from Bharatpur to Kalitar in a jeep carrying goods, the Kandavasi carried the power tiller on a bamboo wheel and took it to the village.
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"This wheeled genie also came to the village riding on our shoulders," said Sita Bahadur Chepang jokingly. Sita Bahadur, who is about to turn 60, is the president of Miteri Farmers Group. After the group received a hand tractor (mini tiller) from the Agricultural Development Office Bharatpur as a grant, the local people carried this plowing machine to the village.
Although it is in Rapti municipality-13 of Chitwan, the motorable road from Kanda village is far away. Therefore, the wheeled vehicle did not walk, but climbed on the shoulders of the locals and reached the village.
The headquarters is 22 km from Bharatpur, Bhandara Bazar. From Bhandara on the east-west highway, you have to go north to reach Kanda. Kalitar can be reached in two and a half hours by car from Bhandara through a difficult mountain road passing through some pitches and some dirt.
After getting off the car in Kalitar, walking up and down the narrow road for an hour and a half, you will reach Kanda. In Kanda, a remote hilly village of the district, there are only around 100 houses belonging to the marginalized tribal Chepang community. It doesn't seem like the government cares much about Chepang. "We didn't believe it when we heard the news that we would get a hand tractor for plowing the fields, but we were sure when we brought it today," said Sita Bahadur.
The power tiller was placed in a jeep carrying goods from Bharatpur and reached Kalitar last Friday.
A narrow goreto, he had to walk very carefully because his feet slipped in places. Nol was carried by two people on their shoulders, but two more young people walked together on the left and right. If there was a sign that something was going to fall or that something was difficult, they would run to catch the machine. Walking very carefully, they brought the tractor to the village by hand.
Sita Bahadur heard about the information that the Agriculture Development Office will provide various agricultural implements to the farmers through the local Kandeshwari Basic School Principal Balkrishna Thaplia. As the practice of raising cows is disappearing in the village, the fields are more suitable for plowing.
The corn planted with a spade does not thrive very well. Therefore, good and modern plowing tools were needed in the village. But even though he was told that he could get a hand tractor with subsidy, he could not dare.
'For a tractor worth 60,000, half of the subsidy is given. It was decided to get it from where else," Sita Bahadur said. Even though the farmers group worked in the village, there was not enough money to spend half of the subsidy in the fund. Yagya Vilas Paudel (YB), principal and director of Central College in Narayangarh, was ready to pay half the amount after getting information about this problem.
'This is how such a big device came to our village for the first time,' said Sita Bahadur. It was Yajavilas who reached Kanda to explain the power tiller. Sita Bahadur welcomed him by giving him a big banana of the Raithane variety. There are also youths in the village who have knowledge about power tillers. Mission Chepang, the in-charge of the hostel in Kanda, used to till the fields with a hand tractor when he studied till class 12 in Kavre.
Ravilal Chepang is also pursuing a Council for Technical Education and Practical Training (CTEVT) course on automobile mechanics. There are young people in the village who know how to run it, how to fix it if there is a problem. The challenge of digging and plowing the fields and producing good crops has now come to us elders,' said Sita Bahadur jokingly.
